Windows Media Player 11 says “Connect a burner and restart the player”

When the problem occurred, and I found no solution, I installed DeepBurner and it works fine but is not as useful as Creator.

Windows can find the drive and read discs in the burner with no problem.

The likely culprit is the removal of Norton Ghost (because it was a pain) which occurred before DeepBurner was installed. Several other problems were created by the removal of Norton Ghost but they have been fixed.

I wonder if removing Norton Ghost caused a problem with Roxio’s DLA. When I right click on the burner in My Computer the drop down list contains no DLA items and Properties has no DLA tab. Do there programs need DLA in order to function? If so, how can I fix it?

However if the right-click doesn't bring up the things you expect, then this indicates that a part of the registry has been removed or damaged.That Windows Media Player is complaining is another likely indication of damage.

Reinstalling, or cleanly uninstalling and then reinstalling Roxio Creator LE might fix the registry entries for Creator, but I don't think it will fix whatever Windows Media Player is suffering from. You may not have got all the repairs done yet.

I have had a similar problem using media player 11. "No burner detected' I have two "WTF"I had tried everything my burning software works fine but not with media player.

I also found CD's (Music) and DVD's would not auto play either, so after thinking about smashing my stupid Acer with a very big hammer I checked to see what had changed on my comp after the recent updates from MS.

So I thought what the hell I installed it thinking it wont do anything and restarted my computer to my suprise my DVD's and CD's Auto played again and as a bonus Media Player 11 now sees the Burner.Sounds like you have the same registry problems...give it a try.